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A couple of weeks back Audu Maikori announced that he would be stepping down as Chocolate City’s music CEO after 10 years of leadership. Audu Maikori founded Chocolate City with Paul Okeugo & Yahaya Maikori in 2005 and has been CEO for 10 years – a span in which they have released 10 albums, received a total of over 250 awards and signed 14 artists.

Jega The Peoples Democratic Party has lauded the former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega, for delivering credible elections. The party, however, said the real person behind Jega’s success was former President Goodluck Jonathan, who appointed him and allowed him to perform his duties.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter, will not be present at the final of the Women’s World Cup. According to his US-based lawyer, the 78-year-old will not attend the game because of “personal reasons”. Blatter resigned last month, despite getting re-elected for a fifth term, as the corruption surrounding the world football body escalated.

Landslides triggered by heavy rain killed at least 21 people across India’s famed tea-growing region of Darjeeling, with more feared trapped under mounds of mud and debris, police said Wednesday. Rescuers were digging through tonnes of sludge searching for residents after overnight landslides struck homes built on slopes in the towns of Mirik, Kalimpong and Darjeeling in West Bengal state.

Stephen Keshi Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi has been left out of the five-man shortlist for the vacant Ivory Coast post, the Ivorien federation has announced. The Ivory Coast Football Federation on Tuesday listed the coaches being considered to succeed Herve Renard, without the Super Eagles coach as one of them. Keshi was listed in the initial list released about a fortnight ago.

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has extended the registration for the Bank Verification Number (BVN) till 31st October, 2015. Recalled that chaotic situations were recorded in most banks' premises in Nigeria, Monday, as hundreds of customers besieged banks in a bid to beat the deadline for the BVN enrolment which was earlier billed to expire on Tuesday, 30th June, 2015. Also, customers that have more than one bank account were also seen with pieces of white papers where the banks where they had registered wrote their unique BVN numbers to take to other banks to key in.

The assassination of Hisham Barakat marks a potentially devastating new development: jihadist groups expanding their activities into the heart of Egypt's cities. Military pallbearers carry the flag draped coffin of Hisham Barakat, the top judicial official in charge of overseeing the prosecution of thousands of Islamists, at his funeral in Cairo, June 30, 2015 Photo by Egyptian Presidency via AP Egyptian state prosecutor Hisham Barakat had been in office for exactly two years when he was killed Monday by a car bomb,

Pierre Nkurunziza claims an early victory for his ruling CNDD-FDD party, despite the opposition of domestic civic groups, AU and the UN. Polling stations had opened early on Monday and about 3.8-million people had been expected to vote in the country’s controversial parliamentary poll, according to the electoral commission. However, turnout was low in and around the capital city of Bujumbura, partly because the election was boycotted by 17 opposition groups.

June 30, 2015: Health workers wash their hands after taking a blood specimen from a child to test for the Ebola virus in an area where a 17-year old boy died from the virus on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia. (AP Photo/ Abbas Dulleh)

Senator Mao Ohuabunwa has said that the plot by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to remove the deputy Senate president, Ike Ekweremadu, will end in futility. He said that only the Senate that elected Ekweremadu as deputy president had the constitutional powers to remove him. The senator from Abia North senatorial district dismissed the suggestion that there was a crisis in the Senate or in his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

 Immediate past Co-ordinating Minister for the Economy & Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, yesterday described as "false and malicious," the allegation by Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, that she spent $2.1 billion from the Excess Crude Account, ECA, without authorization.

LIONEL Messi helped set up five goals as Argentina trounced Paraguay 6-1 in the Copa America semi-finals on Tuesday, setting up a final against host Chile. Messi assisted in first-half goals by Marcos Rojo and Javier Pastore and one of Angel Di Maria’s second-half goals. The Barcelona star also helped set up the final two goals by Sergio Aguero and Gonzalo Higuain. Messi demonstrated his brilliant play-making abilities when he beat three defenders - poking the ball through the legs of one of them - in a remarkable run that culminated in Argentina’s fourth goal by Di Maria.

Rescuers search for victims at the site where an Indonesian air force transport plane crashed in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Wednesday, July 1, 2015. The Hercules C-130 plane crashed into a residential neighborhood in the country’s third-largest city on June 30. (Binsar Bakkara/Associated Press)

Abu Usman al-Hassan was killed at a military base west of the city of Mosul He'd been the terror group's top commander in the north Iraqi stronghold Al-Hassan was also a friend and advisor to leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi But he is said to have fallen out with increasingly powerful foreign jihadis They accused him of plotting to seize control of ISIS and had him executed